Simulated workplaceCAQA AeroTech Maintenance is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
MEACAQA AeroTechSimulated workplace
Today at AeroTech
86 staff
  • Aircraft Work Orders8
  • Defect and Deferred Defect Log8
  • Parts and Bonded Store Register8
  • Safety and Occurrence Reports8
Simulated workplace
Aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul

Airworthy, every time

CAQA AeroTech Maintenance is an approved maintenance organisation that keeps general aviation and regional aircraft airworthy for flying schools, charter operators, aeromedical services, agricultural operators and private owners across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Founded 200186 staff across three sitesMain hangar and workshops, Archerfield, QueenslandLine maintenance station, Sunshine Coast Airport, Queensland
86
Staff
including 31 licensed engineers
112
Aircraft under care
across 14 types
25
Years operating
founded 2001
260
Releases to service per month
line and base combined
Who we are

CAQA AeroTech Maintenance, aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul

CAQA AeroTech Maintenance is an approved maintenance organisation that keeps general aviation and regional aircraft airworthy for flying schools, charter operators, aeromedical services, agricultural operators and private owners across Queensland and northern New South Wales. The business maintains single and twin engine piston aircraft, twin turboprop regional aircraft and light helicopters, and its workshops overhaul piston engines, repair structures and composite components, and test and repair avionics and electrical equipment. Every task is performed against the approved maintenance data, recorded on a work pack and certified by an appropriately licensed and authorised engineer before the aircraft is released to service.

AeroTech operates from a main hangar with structures, engine and component workshops at Archerfield, a line maintenance station at Sunshine Coast Airport that turns aircraft around between flights, and an avionics and component workshop at Toowoomba. The hangar runs a day shift from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm and an afternoon shift to 11:00 pm during heavy check inputs, with line maintenance rostered around customer flying programs seven days a week. Six departments cover line maintenance, base maintenance and structures, avionics and electrical, the component and engine workshop, maintenance planning, stores and technical records, and quality, safety and training. Licensed engineers hold company authorisations for the aircraft types and systems they certify.

Airworthiness above all

No schedule, customer or cost pressure overrides the maintenance data or the certification requirement.

Say what you see

Every defect, error and hazard is reported openly, because a just culture keeps aircraft and people safe.

By the book

Approved data, correct tools, calibrated equipment and complete records on every task, every time.

Respect the craft

We train apprentices properly, mentor licence candidates and keep learning across every type we maintain.

What we do

Services and operations

To return every aircraft to service safe, compliant and on schedule, with records that prove it.

Line maintenance

Daily and turnaround inspections, flight servicing, defect rectification and minor scheduled tasks at Archerfield and Sunshine Coast so customer aircraft keep flying with minimal downtime.

Scheduled and heavy maintenance

Periodic inspections, annual and hourly checks, airworthiness directive compliance and major inspections on piston, turboprop and light helicopter types in the Archerfield hangar.

Structural and composite repair

Inspection and repair of metal and composite structures, corrosion treatment, sheet metal fabrication and non-destructive testing to approved repair schemes.

Engine and component overhaul

Piston engine overhaul, propeller and accessory repair, hydraulic and pneumatic component maintenance and test with full traceability and release documentation.

Avionics and electrical

Installation, inspection, testing and repair of electrical systems, instruments, radio, navigation and autopilot systems, including avionics upgrades and wiring repairs.

Continuing airworthiness support

Maintenance program management, technical records, airworthiness directive and service bulletin tracking and aircraft documentation review for operators and owners.

Clients and partners (all fictional)
Skyreach Flight TrainingCoral Coast Air CharterNorthern Aeromedical ServicesDarling Downs Aerial ApplicatorsPelican Bay HelicoptersCooper Basin Survey AviationSkyreach Flight TrainingCoral Coast Air CharterNorthern Aeromedical ServicesDarling Downs Aerial ApplicatorsPelican Bay HelicoptersCooper Basin Survey Aviation

Notice board All notices

  • Safety VH-SFT grounded pending tool search
    9 September 2026
  • Quality Withdrawn multimeter and torque wrench due
    8 September 2026
  • Compliance Safety committee meeting and human factors briefing
    7 September 2026

Coming up Calendar

  • 11/09Daily production meeting
    7:00 am, Hangar office, Archerfield
  • 14/09Apprentice stage reviews begin
    9:00 am, Training room, Archerfield
  • 19/09VH-NAM release to service deadline
    3:00 pm, Hangar bay 2, Archerfield
  • 21/09Internal audit of tool control and calibration
    9:00 am, All tool stores
For trainers and assessors

Mapped to the Aeroskills Training Package

Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.

Training packageMEA release 6.0
Qualifications listed9 of 17 current
Units mapped23
Documents15